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Delaware: Castle 48, Coons 37; Coons 47, O’Donnell 36

Coons leads conservative activist Christine O’Donnell, who is challenging Castle for the GOP Senate nomination in a primary next Tuesday, by a 47% to 36% margin. Given that matchup, eight percent (8%) prefer another candidate, while nine percent (9%) are undecided.

Last month, Coons held a similar 46% to 36% lead over O’Donnell after the candidates were virtually tied in July.

Castle captures 71% of the GOP vote, while O’Donnell earns 63% support among voters in her own party. While Coons is backed by 70% of Democrats against O’Donnell, he earns the vote from just 55% of Democratic voters when matched against Castle. Voters not affiliated with either major party prefer Castle over Coons but favor the Democrat if O’Donnell is his opponent.

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Wow, I got ahead of myself. The Democrats here in DE are already going after Castle and the News Journal is right there to cover it.

DaydreamBeliever on September 7, 2010 at 12:03 PM

Again this shows Castle’s vulnerability in the general. The votes pointed about by Geraghty are good but they were mostly made by Castle with the knowledge that he would be running for Senate and be facing a tough primary. The Dems can point to an offsetting vote on each one. Coons will do the same but he’s mostly a blank slate. He can fool the public into thinking he’s more conservative than Castle and he won’t have a hard time doing it.

The voters of Delaware have been voting for Castle for 40 years!
He’s served as a state assemblyman, Lt. Governor, 2 terms as Governor and was elected to be DE’s ONLY Congressman for 9 terms.
They know him and trust him.

To be Liberal. It’s not a liberal year.

Coons won’t run to the right–Did Biden?
If you read Geraghty’s piece, Castle voted to the right on the issues more often than you trolls are willing to admit.

It’s not a leftist year. Everyone in the country is running to the right. Every Democrat in the country is an Independent now didn’t you hear? Biden won on incumbency mostly. That’s not a plus this year.

Don’t know what’s up with this “gungrabbing” rhetoric, but as others have said, they won’t be voting on 2nd Amendment rights in the Senate.

Sure they won’t. The Dems got their butts handed to them in 1994. When did the “assault” weapons ban pass?

BTW, regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee, if–if–Republicans retake our majority in the Senate, the head of the SJC may not be Castle, but it will be a Republican, to wit Jeff Sessions.

Jenfidel on September 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM

The Republicans gave Clinton his nominees and they will do the same for Obama. Republicans believe elections have consequences and one of those is the President gets his nominees. This won’t change.

You have been correct about Castle. If you want embryonic stem cell research, cap-and-trade, Brady-Bill gun control, campaign finance reform measures favoring incumbents etc he is your man with a voting record to prove it.

O’Donnell is doing amazingly well, considering she has been branded by the Senate R-NC club as a mental case. Club Senate has made a decision that O’Donnelly is more dangerous than having a DEM in that seat, because they have attempted to make her unelectable

Last night I caught Mark Levin talking raging about the Republic Senate re election gang, contrasting them to now Governor Haley Barbour, who when in similar position of power, let the public choose their own candidate in the primary and saved party resources for the battle against the other party

Club Senate is attempting to keep the riff raff out of the club by using donations to destroy challengers to their annointed primary candidates

The GOP ought to give up the pretense of running primaries, and just present a list of Party members who have been chosen by the Committee to be candidates. This will preserve the inbreeding

They could skip holding a Presidential convention too. Just have the Prez pretenders hand over their delegates right after the primaries, and they could run the dog-and-pony show on the internet. Pass a hat at the hotel for the gimmee lists from the big donors and be done with it